On last weeks post on Nation’s Newsplex, we featured an analytics post on the perception of women issues on social media. The link to the post can be found here: https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinegendercampaigns/2718262-5368756-fpvkmz/index.html
On this year’s edition of the Democracy and Rights Festival, I was invited to make a presentation on data around extrajudicial killings in Kenya. Nation Media Groups data journalism segment Nation Newsplex created the Deadly Force Database , a database ...
The 2nd Annual Banking, Financial Services and Insurance Summit will take place in Nairobi on 4 – 5 February 2020. The event brings together some of the top CIOs, CISOs, CTOs, Heads of IT, ICT, Risk, Compliance, Retail Banking, Customer ...
What’s the probability that the Ethiopian flight 320 was Boeings error? https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/2718262-5024656-13r6oljz/index.html
KIPI receives a myriad of applications for registration of trade marks in a year. Normally, a smooth trade mark registration process takes about four(4)-six(6) months. The process may however face challenges such as refusal by the Registrar of trade marks or objections of the application by third parties. In such instances, an applicant is allowed ...
Does A cause B? That has been a question statisticians and philosophers have been attempting to answer. It is indeed not a trivial task to prove causation between two events. Philosopher David Hume in his 1748 book ‘An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding’ provided an idea to define causation, it was known as The Counterfactual Theory of ...
A Kenyan athlete wins about three in 10 career races. Does that translate to a worthy career? https://www.nation.co.ke/kenyanathletes
New ways Kenyans on Twitter are communicating https://www.nation.co.ke/twitterdialects
Analysis of how participants in an international innovation competition attempted to cheat their way to the prize money. https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinevoting/2718262-4684756-tub3gp/index.html
The Kenyan e-commerce sector has been a death bed for many startups – both large and small companies have failed in a bid to launch viable online businesses. Google’s Getting Kenyan Businesses Online failed to gain traction, Mocality (an online business directory)lacked a sustainable revenue stream and had to shutdown, Sahara books didn’t have enough ...
The Daily Nation publishes 30 deaths (on average) everyday. In publicly announcing the demise of the dearly departed ones, the bereaved intentions are untold. They may simply be informing relations and acquaintances on the passing of a mate, or myriad of other reasons such as fundraising for medical and funeral costs. Whatever the objectives, these ...
There is an oddity to the tale of Nairobi’s real estate sector. Despite being the largest city in East Africa and a tourist hub, Nairobi trails Kampala in AirBnB occupancy rate. Statistics obtained from AirDNA, an AirBnB data aggregator, shows Nairobi’s occupancy rate is at 38 percent while Kampala’s is at 43 percent. Nairobi has ...
In Twitter’s opt-in geolocation feature, most Kenyans and by extension the world prefers to geotag only 1% of their tweets. This is a great problem for Twitter applications that hope to ride on its location data. While volunteering for #whatisaroad — a project on mapping potholes in Nairobi via Twitter, a problem arose. The Twitters users who ...
In the Beginning During the colonial period, the Luhya and Luo tribes of Kenya were collectively referred as The Kavirondo. The name withstood time and even had an independence movement name (Young Kavirondo Association). If you ask the general public in Kenya the meaning of the word Kavirondo, the common answer would be the Kiswahili ...
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